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What does scuttlebutt mean?

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Noun
  1. (informal, uncountable) Gossip, rumour, idle chatter.
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Walker took off to see if he could find out the latest scuttlebutt, leaving Emmert alone.
The scuttlebutt I hear is that Enron was long to the same extent that other energy suppliers and wholesale traders were long.
Yet the 61-year-old Diller insists there was never anything to the scuttlebutt.
The scuttlebutt is that the aide will step aside in 2010 to make way for an election bid by Mr Biden's son, currently serving in Iraq.
Asked to rubbish this scurrilous piece of scuttlebutt BT has sheepishly acknowledged that it is true.
There's been some scuttlebutt that the Enterprise is going to be involved in something pretty big, but that's all it is.

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